These protesters are about as innocent as the snake filled with the round shapes of "fog horn Leghorn's," offspring, outlining her snake-like belly while saying it wasn't me what swallowed the youngsters. All one needs to do is read the web sites and the bragging these protestors make about how they continuously attack Edythe's home and vandalize it to know they are lying through their teeth in this Blog below.

Twelve peaceful animal rights activists were illegally arrestedSaturday near the home of Edythe London, notorious UCLA employee knownfor addicting non-human primates to methamphetamines and nicotine.While acting completely within the law, activists were summarilyrounded up and arrested by rogue UCLA police intent on stopping aconstitutionally-protected picket. Identical demonstrations haveoccurred in the area for several years without arrests.

Edythe London is a long time primate "vivisector" (vivisection is theact of performing torturous and mutilating experiments on animals).London injects and addicts monkeys to methamphetamines (turning theminto tweakers, so to speak), before strapping them into leatherrestraints, doing "PET scans" on them and then killing them. She alsoaddicts primates to nicotine, using money provided by a grant from thePhillip Morris Company, as well as having used underage teens for thestudy as well.

For the past two years, UCLA police and the LAPD have watched andfilmed activists marching past and around Edythe London's 'toney'neighborhood in Westwood, California and never cited or arrested anyactivist under the municipal code cited on Saturday for the arrests.After imprisonment for several hours, all the activists were releasedwithout bail. A hearing has been set for June 15 the Airport MunicipalCourt in Los Angeles.

A 'Legal Observer' with formal training from the National LawyersGuild was at the scene of the arrests videotaping UCLA policeharassment and states "UCLA police made the arrests while activistswere marching on the sidewalk by another home two doors fromLondon's." Police then proceeded to CONFISCATE the legal observer'svideo tape of the entire day's legal picketing, as well as hundreds ofdollars worth of posters, a banner depicting horrible images ofprimates in the laboratory's of UCLA and other laboratories and a fivefoot "stuffed animal" created to look like a monkey being experimentedon hanging from a cross.

The legal observer is certain UCLA police will alter or erase hervideotape: "This has happened before with videotapes confiscated bypolice showing official misconduct and/or proving activists werewithin the law."

A motion is being filed today by the defendants counsel, attorneysJohn J. Uribe and David Tannenbaum, to preserve ALL the evidenceconfiscated at the scene; they are asking a court to have thevideotape or a copy released back to the legal observer immediatelybefore UCLA has the chance to alter the tape.

During the arrests, a sympathetic neighbor came over to the legalobserver and stated "UCLA has millions of dollars and try to pushtheir weight around whenever and wherever they want to."

After being release from jail, the nine adults and the three minorsvowed to continue doing legal pickets with renewed determination. Oneof the arrestees stated, "We were singing in jail songs like 'We ShallOvercome' and others and were completely united in our USConstitutional and California Constitutional rights to be able tolegally picket on side walks that we pay taxes for. The three minorsparents who had to come to the jail to pick them up, are very proud ofthe teenagers for spending a Saturday afternoon exercising theirfreedom of assembly and speech for a noble cause instead of doing whatmost teens their age are doing, either getting high on drugs, alcoholor having sex with other teenagers. The parents have pride that theirteenagers are socially aware and are using what our founding fathersput into the Constitution in order to allow the public to make changeswhen innocent beings are being oppressed, tortured, mutilated andkilled because they don't have a voice

"Upon full inspection we discovered the entire brake system had beendisabled," said Martinez. He said the Santa Cruz police have broughtin the FBI.

"We're bringing in as many resources as we can and we're not missing asingle shred of evidence," Martinez said.

The officer said animal rights groups have been involved in otherattacks on researchers in the Santa Cruz area in recent years.Martinez said that police believe that one of those organization maybe involved in cutting the researcher's brakes due to his work in thebiology field.

Dr. Jerry Vlasak is the press officer for the North American AnimalLiberation Front and said he didn't know whether the group wasinvolved in the incident, but didn't rule it out.

"We haven't received any sort of communiqué. We may receive it later.Sometimes it appears a week or two, a month or two later," Vlasak toldABC News.

Vlasak said he is not involved in the activities of the undergroundmembers of ALF, but simply a spokesperson to communicate theiractivities.

"If this guy had done animal research, I would say this was ajustified action," Vlasak said. Martinez said the researcher whose carwas sabotaged did not use animals in his work, but Vlasak was notconvinced.

"The fact they said he's not doing animal research doesn't hold a lotof water with me. These guys are notorious for spinning it how theywant to spin it," Vlasak said about the authorities.

History of Attacks By Animal Rights Groups

According to Martinez the researcher and his family are recoveringfrom their ordeal.

"The researcher is fairly known for positive work in environmentalconservation, so I don't really understand why... A lot of people knowwho he is and they are now angry because they know the legitimate workthe researcher does to help environment," he said.

Martinez pointed to several past incidents involving involving collegeresearchers and animal rights groups as to why authorities believethat may be the case once again.

In 2009 four animal rights activists were arrested for a series ofincidents involving UC Santa Cruz and Berkeley researchers, includingentering the home of a UC Santa Cruz researcher in February 2008 andattacking her husband, according to court documents.

The arrests were made by the joint terrorism task force and the fourwere charged with using force, violence, or threats to interfere withthe operation of the University of California in violation of theAnimal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Those four have all pled not guiltyand the trial is ongoing. Also in 2008 people who police say have tiesto animal rights extremist groups allegedly firebombed the home of oneUC Santa Cruz researcher, as well as the car of another. No arrestshave been made in those two incidents and although police have saidthey suspect members of an animal rights extremist group.

Vlasak said in those two incidents nobody has come forward claimingresponsibility, but he suspects if those targeted did in fact conductresearch and testing on animals as reported it was most likely peopleinvolved with the Animal Liberation Front.

"Seems to me they were affiliated with Animal Liberation Front," Vlasak said.

On the North American Animal Liberation Front's Website, the grouptakes responsibility for recently burning down a sheepskin factory inDenver, Colo., as well as placing an "incendiary device" in theexhaust pipe of a car belonging to a primate researcher in La Jolla,Calif.

Vlasak said the fight for animal liberation is comparable to any pastliberation attempts by humans and the violence seen at times is amoral and neccesarry step to get results.

"It just happens to be a different species this time rather than adifferent race or people," Vlasak said.

It seems to me that Jerry Vlasik is walking a fine line. One would think a pretty good case could be made for material support for terrorists by him running their web-site and being their spokesperson.

It seems to me that Jerry Vlasik is walking a fine line. One would think a pretty good case could be made for material support for terrorists by him running their web-site and being their spokesperson.

Don't let your feelings on some political issue alter your support for our most fundamental rights under the Constitution. Next time you might be the one protesting something and might get locked up by the police. I might totally disagree with what somebody says, but I'll defend their right to say it.

Don't let your feelings on some political issue alter your support for our most fundamental rights under the Constitution. Next time you might be the one protesting something and might get locked up by the police. I might totally disagree with what somebody says, but I'll defend their right to say it.

When the mantra reads like this in advocating the type of hate mongering that Vlasak spews they have crossed the line.Hate mongers such as he do not have the right to call for the murder of other folks. Meanwhile those same vivisectors are on the right track to getting a vaccine to prevent breast cancer according to yesterdays news.

This is not some tepid type of speech but a call to murder folks and that action is being taken by the folks who agree with Vlasak. Free speech is one thing but hate mongering folks in their own home yard or at their place of business while calling upon others to kill the victim is a damgerous precedent which the animal rights & earth liberation morons are abusing.

Using Vlasak's own circular logic where he declares it to be moral to pre emptively take the life of a person in defense of animals then can we not pre emptively take his life in defense of the researchers?

Unlike the fool anti this is not a call to do harm but merely a rhetorical question.

Using Vlasak's own circular logic where he declares it to be moral to pre emptively take the life of a person in defense of animals then can we not pre emptively take his life in defense of the researchers?

Unlike the fool anti this is not a call to do harm but merely a rhetorical question.

He doesn't have the logical ability to see that position although you see that point clearly ,warrior. It is also quite significant that researchers are in the process of saving even more lives ,both human & other species through the research fields. The drugs & medical procedures used in human hospitals are also used in vet clinics.

This disease has touched every household in North America & Vlasak types hate the fact that a vaccine developed to prevent it could have caused researched animal deaths. Knowing children & parents that have lost one of the most important members of their family to breast cancer I am in awe of the callous behavior Vlasak & his ilk have towards those lost to breast cancer and the stress the survivors and their families are under. Vlasak is not so much pro animal rights as he is blind to the tragedy of loosing a member of the human family to a disease that destroys family ties. Unfortunately he has attracted other folks to his beliefs that are just as malicious against these researchers as he is. Those researchers provide hope for a cure first and eventual cures for diseases that destroy the flowers of humanity,our Women folk.

Why yet another cancer 'miracle' really is a cause for hope this time While modern medicine may not be able to wipe out this disease forever, the latest breakthrough has the potential to greatly extend patients' lives

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Saturday June 05 2010

As the lifespan of laboratory mice goes, Dr Vincent Tuohy's have won the lottery. But only those who were injected with his groundbreaking breast cancer vaccine. None of these tiny research creatures, bred to make them prone to the disease, went on to develop it. All of the others did.For almost a decade, the Irish immunologist has been convinced that the secret to ridding the human body of its most insidious killer lies not in treating tumours but preventing them from ever taking hold in the first place.In the way that childhood vaccination programmes have proven to be the most successful intervention in medical history, wiping out diseases like polio, mumps and measles, he became certain that deadly tumours could be eliminated in the same way.By focusing on the proteins that trigger the most dangerous forms of malignancy, a single shot for prostate cancer, lung cancer and bowel cancer could be developed and universally distributed to the population, thwarting wayward cells in their tracks, and saving healthcare systems billions in expensive chemotherapy treatments with a dubious success rate.Cancer is an overgrowth of the body's own cells, so creating a vaccination that would tell the body to stop this process is exceptionally complex because it can result in the destruction of healthy tissue and cause more harm than good.A further complication with breast cancer is that tumour cells are strikingly similar to benign ones and it can be hard to distinguish between them.But from his lab at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, Dr Tuohy laid the scientific groundwork for this first-of-its-kind vaccine by targeting a protein called alpha-lactalbumin, which is found in most breast cancer cells. His team created a vaccine containing an antigen against the protein, causing the immune system to attack it. In their research, the vaccine even proved successful in shrinking existing tumours. However, although this vital protein is not found on normal breast cells, it is present in women who are lactating. As such, the vaccine would only be suitable for women who are not going to breast feed in the future. This week, many in the normally cautious world of science hailed the vaccine as "monumental", claiming it had the potential to eradicate breast cancer for good.Breast cancer, which is the most common form of the disease after skin cancer, accounts for almost a third of all cancers in women in Ireland and is responsible for at least 640 deaths every year.Up to now, only two cancer-prevention vaccines have been approved for use, one against cervical cancer and the other against liver cancer. However, these vaccines target viruses -- namely the human papillomavirus (HPV) and Hepatitis B (HBV). This is the first time that a vaccine has been developed that will target cancer formation itself."Tumours are like drunks in a bar," says Dr Tuohy, "turning up and saying and doing things they shouldn't. Once they take root, they are very hard to eliminate and trying to treat cancer has been terribly disappointing. Preventing it in the first place would be much easier. "If you can isolate the proteins that are acting up in the body, you can do that. We think that breast cancer is a completely preventable disease in the same way that polio is completely preventable."We have a wonderful vaccination programme for children that protects us from polio, measles and 17 different diseases -- but it stops at age 13. There's nothing fancy about what we've done. We're vaccinating against something that isn't there -- unless you already have a tumour -- so it shouldn't harm you and it should kill the tumours."The next step for Dr Tuohy and his team is to get funding so that the vaccine can go into human trials, a process which could begin next year. However, it will be at least a decade before the vaccine itself is approved for use in the general public. The cancer research community in Ireland has welcomed the development as impressive."This is a big milestone in the war against cancer and definitely one of the biggest breakthroughs we've had," says Professor William Gallagher of the UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science."And the study was published in Nature Medicine, a journal you don't really get into unless you are going to have a big impact. The beauty of it is that you could shut off the need for treatment if you can prevent the disease from coming all together."But cancer cells are just modified versions of our own cells, so if you try to immunise against your own cells you have to be very careful," says Prof Williams, whose research focus is breast and skin cancer."The other problem with a disease like breast cancer is that it can be germinating for over 20 years and has often already spread before you can find it in mammography."Cancer is very clever. The ability of tumour cells to spread kills 90pc of people with the disease. Tumours even send out signals from their primary location to preferred second sites they have chosen for re-homing. It's a bit like going off to a holiday home and preparing it in advance. The tumour releases proteins, sent through the bloodstream, to the bone marrow, liver or brain, for example, and tells them to create an environment there where it can grow."The idea that a cure for cancer might be just around the corner has been tempered by another important fact: just because the new vaccine works in mice does not mean it will be effective in humans.The most experimented-on creature in this history of humanity share over 90pc of their genes with humans and their main biological body systems work in the same way as ours -- but a mouse can never produce all the answers.Trial researchers in labs often give doses to mice that are much higher than a doctor could safely use on a patient. To make a drug suitable for human use means managing the side effects, a process that can take years to tackle. However, that should not take away from the value of mice to some of the world's most significant medical advances, including the discovery of penicillin, the role of vitamins and understanding how genes work. As women's hopes were raised by the prospect of a new weapon in the battle against their most common form of cancer, it was also an important week for men's health, following research that shows a new vaccine for prostate cancer is safe and has few side effects.In April, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine, Provenge, for use in men with advanced prostate cancer who have failed hormone treatments.Unlike the breast cancer vaccine, it is a therapeutic, not preventive, treatment made from the patient's own white blood cells. These cells are removed from the patient and treated with the drug; they are then placed back into the system. They then trigger an immune response which in turn kills cancer cells and leaves normal ones unharmed.In trials, some patients with the disease who had been given a very limited time saw their lives extended by two to three years.For those at the coalface of cancer research, the dream of discovering a magic bullet against the disease has long been abandoned. But there is a growing sense of optimism that while medicine may not be able to wipe out this most complex of diseases forever, small, incremental steps like this will ensure that more and more people lead long healthy lives, keeping it at bay.Irish Independent

Following up on last week’s post, there is a report of a third personvisited by the FBI in California. The FBI appears to be seekinginformation on an animal rights activists believed to be known bythose visited.

In this latest incident, the person was an ex-vegan, and the FBIattempted to capitalize on this “revision of belief” by requestingthis person speak to them. The person reportedly refused to talk. TheFBI stated in this interview attempt that they were aware this personwas no longer vegan.

It is clear the FBI is attempting to exploit weaknesses and conflictsin our movement to gather intelligence which will aid them in theirgoal of imprisoning the A.L.F., and other facets of our movement theydeem a threat. It should be expected the three reports received so farare only the tip of the iceberg, and that many more activists orformer activists have been contacted.

Be vigilant, and know why it is never OK to speak to the FBI.----------------------------------------

Voice of the VoicelessFBI Making the Rounds in Californiaby Peter YoungJun 3rd, 2010http://www.voicefromthecleless.org/fbi-making-the-rounds-in-california/

Information is still coming in, but today the FBI visited at least twoindividuals in California apparently seeking information on anotheractivist. The FBI reportedly left a business card on the doorstep ofone person, and contacted the parents of a second. The person the FBIis apparently seeking information on has been a recent and visible FBItarget in connection with an out-of-state Animal Liberation Frontaction. More information will be posted as it is available andcleared to make public.

It is important to make news of FBI visits immediately public andbring a spotlight on FBI intrusion into our movement.

Sometime last week, the Tandy Leather Factory in Salt Lake City wasthe target of an apparent arson attack. This mysterious, (so far)unclaimed arson comes just weeks after at a similar unclaimed arson atthe Sheepskin Factory store in Denver. The arson appears to have atleast temporarily shut down the store, located at 1107 South StateStreet in Salt Lake City. As of yet, neither the Animal LiberationFront nor other animal liberation group has taken credit.

According to a post on a gun-talk forum, an employee of another Tandylocation stated that someone broke into the Salt Lake City store,spread an “accelerant”, and set the store on fire. The quote from thepost:

“I went to the Tandy store in West Valley, and the owner there saidthat someone had broken into the SLC store (his store was unharmed)and spread “an accelerant” up and down the aisles, especially overwhere they store their leather.”

Local media have not yet picked up the story of the arson.

Local activists visited the location and confirmed the building wasclosed, boarded up, and had clearly sustained fire damage. A sign onthe door read “Closed for fire clean up”.

This is the latest in a long line of actions at animal exploitationtargets for which no claim of responsibility by activists is made. Thetrue motive of this action can not be known, but a store selling theskins of animals would be a legitimate target for the A.L.F.

This is the second Tandy leather store to be targeted in an arsonattack. In June 1995, the Animal Liberation Front set fire to theTandy Leather in Murray, UT, causing $300,000 damages.------------------------------

With my budding little holster business, I've become a frequentvisitor to the Tandy store on State Street - about 1100 South. Nicestpeople you'd ever want to meet.

I ran down today to pick up some supplies, and found the place boardedup, and what appeared to be smoke covered windows. The owner of thepawn shop next door was out on his sidewalk, so I asked him whathappened. He frowned and said "PETA."

I went to the Tandy store in West Valley, and the owner there saidthat someone had broken into the SLC store (his store was unharmed)and spread "an accelerant" up and down the aisles, especially overwhere they store their leather.

This kind of stuff just makes my head want to explode - I do notunderstand what the activists think they are proving by these cowardlyactions. They aren't hurting Tandy, they aren't hurting Herman Oak(tannery), they are hurting the franchise owners. In fact, I stronglysuspect that the actual perps couldn't give a rat's [bum] aboutanimals, and just want an excuse to justify their deviant socialbehavior.

The store will reopen - probably next week. I'd encourage everyonewho's ever had a hankering to try their hand at leather to pay them avisit and give them some business. We can't let the cowards win.